LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 219, 11 August 1884, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

', The rijaj^ber ,(jf Pr^Bß^et>res«nt»iiveß| fjrott) ottfbj: ffiffapi Ji^e v colqn^. isi thjs session unOgflaHy and' "fnp^uij'et specials from all the leading iourn^s of ■ the colony! IJ y t / \'\ V' x ]i\ •// "i.^l ; Our latest commercial cable news con:, tains the following :— Good accounts a|re to hand from the English/wheat/diatjricjts, #n^ haryest 'pfo^p'ects are* favbrabje. The Imp crpp are now f avsraijle,! i fik jrecepjly|ne fre'ajtheß ihj,R- --■ io? a ff®^eff-gi'Bat JJot yepy »a|;|sfacjtory examinations appear to be ma4e of Bteajnejfl §rf i?j n g at New Zealand from Australia. .' Qit the ''Bjngarpjoma's arrival at fort Chalmers, a very perfunctory examination. y as madq 1 ,at an early hour iQ ( -tt|e / . 'ifcoVwrnig, ' : and those passengers who did not ohQoae toget up were npt pxainined at all, So 'mn'cK for'the'precaiittons alleged by Ministers' tifhaVd'been taken to guard < , against the introduction of infection. There ar^only ; three infected flocks m the 'Wellington sheep district. ; These are Hliin'the North Wairarapa 1 dißtrict, and are those of Rev. J. 0. Andrew, Ica> I m H. Pelliss, Woodhurst, and Mr William UWftoft, Pakawai.. ; The tofal number of the'infepte^ $ooks is 26,26 1. The output of coal; jln^ the United .■rvindoih.is stated to have' reached, last yeaiV tlife Mgh ! totaLbf 163,750,000 toris', or an increase of more than four and a ! half per cent, on the previous fears' v1 • ;

According to the special correspondent of the Wauganui Herald there is, a general belief that the Government finance is m a bad state. It has been i found that £400,000 worth of Public [.Works material was ordered m excess of I Major Atkinson's statement. ■ A* singtflar accident is described m the Wairoa Guardian of the 30th ult. A little boy, son of Mr Parker, residing m Clyde, was riding a pet dog which is kept about fehre Border Hotel when" it" .. Budttenly bolted the little fel<! low violently. He sustained fracture of the forearm, but, according to latestaci, counts, is doing well. An old,, white-haired mau named > Patrick Brenuan, who wn» brought before the City Betithfin Wednesday f6r" drunkenness, put forward the unique claim of being the man who cut the first track to Melbourne ; and he -pleaded to be let off m consideration- of his _p.aßjL ser.y icea^afr a pioneer of jaettlenienli'tn tKe "colony 7, - c '' T. ;: : The papier Harbourßoard.has, by a majority of one, decided to ask Pa«liavmeut fo^-Airtiioritjy-tq^aise £300,000 instead 'of as-at fira-t pjropo.sed, to carry "out" Mr Goodall's harpour scheme. „•- ?}\ . ' / t The^a\VeraiSto^VeMrtethau at Mr Jackspri's last; st^ok sale, prices showed a.deoldeTi 'HbV,- atfd'thV bidding was „ brisk. The stock entered all sold readily. 'This is good news for our farmSrs itfndp r .gra^er 8 ;^ | ;; ' y. g . \ ft \ Messrs Stevens amd <|orfori ? s of| v the furniture and effects, at Biflts, " of ' Mr C. L. Maclean, realized high prices, m sonic cage's |e^chirig; almost asj iouch as they coat origiually. Tho attendance 3of ppreh ( aser^ was;', large, and the bidding very 'spirited /throughout. . Th«! Mldldg Sftor* is informed that MrCottom wfio was for some years ■ station-mas^ei; at Palmerston, and who,; i holds ,ak ( qynilar .position^. a.ti R.emu.era, Auckland, lias been bequeathed a larje money by a deceased relative at : Horiie: v . 'A CahtisrbuVy pandidiife ha^ been/ Jfe-1 commended for the Upper Taonui school^ and should: he successfully T>aßa hia ex* • : amin&Jtion, he.wijjbe appoiuted.. 1 : ro